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USS Sabine was as the flagship for the Paraguay Squadron, Flag Officer William B. Shubrick, in command, an expeditionary force that won the
United States an indemnity, an apology, and a renewed treaty for firing on USS Water Witch

Sabine then operated out of New York with the Home Fleet until July 1861

Decommissioned in July 1861, at Portsmouth Navy Yard

Recommissioned, 30 August 1861

Assigned to the Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 9 September 1861

Reassigned in August 1864 to Norfolk to serve as a training ship for Navy Apprentices and landsmen

Reassigned to New London after the war for the same purpose

From 1869 to 1871 USS Sabine conducted midshipmen training cruises to Europe and the Mediterranean

"The United States Fleet off Fort Pickens, Florida" A line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861, depicting U.S. Navy ships off Pensacola, Florida, in April 1861. Federal troops were landed at Fort Pickens on 12 April.
Ships identified in the title line are (left to right): USS Wyandotte (partially visible); USS Supply (in the distance); USS Sabine; USS Brooklyn and USS Crusader (partially visible).US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 59121

Bill Gonyo

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Right half of a line engraving published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", 1861, depicting the scene off Pensacola in mid-April 1861. Features identified in text immediately below the image are (left to right): USS Sabine, USS St. Louis, USS Supply, USS Wyandotte (incorrectly depicted as a side-wheel steamer), Pensacola Navy Yard, and the chartered steamship SS Atlantic (USS Sumpter).US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 73743

Bill Gonyo

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An 1875 engraving "Rescue of Major Reynolds Battalion of Marines from the Foundering Steamer Governor", hand colored. While being used as a transport off Hatteras, 2 November 1861 the steamer SS Governor, commander Phillips, foundered in the rough sea. Those on board, a battalion of Marines under Major Reynolds, were transferred with great difficulty to USS Sabine. Governor was a side wheel steamer of 650 tons burden. She was built in New York city in 1846, and was originally intended for river navigation.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Sabine at anchor while taking part in a seaborne expedition against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy in December 1864.US Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division digital ID cwpb.03821.